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Stephen G. Walker publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen G. Walker sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 98 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Stephen G. Walker D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen G. Walker sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 22 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stephen G. Walker is an academic affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and related subfields.

Their work covers multiple topics related to international relations and governance. Key research areas include:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring

Walker has contributed to a variety of scholarly publications, particularly in journals related to political science and international relations. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi
  • Teoria Polityki
  • Stanford University Press eBooks
  • Foreign Policy Analysis

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate an engagement with complex political systems, role theory in politics, and geopolitical conflict, published between 2020 and 2025. Selected papers with publication years and venues are:

  • Individual Leaders and the State: The Case of Israel as a Complex Adaptive System (2025, Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi)
  • Binary Role Theory and Levels of Role Change in World Politics: When Do Leaders Make a Difference? (2022, Teoria Polityki)
  • Index (2020, Stanford University Press eBooks)
  • Binary Role Theory and Modeling the Superpower Confrontation in Ukraine (2025, Foreign Policy Analysis)

Walker's collaborative efforts include working multiple times with coauthors such as Akan Malici, Mark Schafer, and Joshua Lambert. Akan Malici is noted as the most frequent coauthor.

Best Publications

  • Role theory and foreign policy analysis

    Stephen G. Walker

  • Explorations in Political Psychology

    Stephen G. Walker;Shanto Iyengar;William J. McGuire

  • Systematic Procedures for Operational Code Analysis: Measuring and Modeling Jimmy Carter's Operational Code

    Stephen G. Walker;Mark Schafer;Michael D. Young

  • The Interface Between Beliefs and Behavior Henry Kissinger's Operational Code and the Vietnam War

    Stephen G. Walker

  • The evolution of operational code analysis

    Stephen G. Walker

  • The Motivational Foundations of Political Belief Systems: A Re-Analysis of the Operational Code Construct

    Stephen G. Walker

  • The personalities of Bush and Gorbatchev measured at a distance: procedures, portraits and policy

    David G. Winter;Margaret G. Hermann;Walter Weintraub;Stephen G. Walker

  • Beliefs and leadership in world politics : methods and applications of operational code analysis

    Mark Schafer;Stephen G. Walker

  • Democratic Leaders and the Democratic Peace: The Operational Codes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton

    Mark Schafer;Stephen G. Walker

  • Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis : States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

    Stephen G. Walker;Akan Malici;Mark Schafer

  • Presidential Operational Codes and Foreign Policy Conflicts in the Post-Cold War World

    Stephen G. Walker;Mark Schafer;Michael D. Young

  • Thinking about the Role of Religion in Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis

    Carolyn M. Warner;Stephen G. Walker

  • The Political Universe of Lyndon B. Johnson and His Advisors: Diagnostic and Strategic Propensities in Their Operational Codes

    Stephen G. Walker;Mark Schafer

  • Psychodynamic Processes and Framing Effects In Foreign Policy Decision-making: Woodrow Wilson's Operational Code

    Stephen G. Walker

  • Resolve, Accept, or Avoid: Effects of Group Conflict on Foreign Policy Decisions

    Charles F. Hermann;Janice Gross Stein;Bengt Sundelius;Stephen G. Walker

  • Operational Code Analysis at a Distance: The Verbs in Context system of Content Analysis

    Mark Schafer;Stephen G. Walker

  • U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes

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  • Structure and Process in International Politics

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  • Belief Systems as Causal Mechanisms in World Politics: An Overview of Operational Code Analysis

    Stephen G. Walker;Mark Schafer

  • Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations: Enemies of Our Own Making

    Akan Malici;Stephen G. Walker

  • Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making . By Farnham Barbara Rearden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 313p. $39.50.

    Stephen G. Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Winter
David G. Winter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Margaret G. Hermann
Margaret G. Hermann Syracuse University
William J. McGuire
William J. McGuire Yale University
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
Janice Gross Stein
Janice Gross Stein University of Toronto

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